Eric’s Dream

I guess these are the crossroads of dieting. I am at 222 lbs this week. My weight has fluctuated within a few pounds, but my body fat % has gone up so I know that I am losing some ground.
I have, for the past few complacent weeks, been eating garbage often, drinking sugary soda [...]

Being around all those fabulously fit people yesterday, inspired and frustrated me at the same time.  On the one hand, I walked away from that race pumped and excited and wanting to continue on and work to get in shape.  On the other hand, it fueled that old frustration in my mind of  “what is [...]

to make me feel not so bad.  I just looked at the results of the Fargo 1/2 marathon.  They had 4392 finishers for the 1/2 marathon.  If I would have been in that run, I would have finished with over 500 runners behind me and would have definitely still been in a big group of [...]

Well I “finished” the 1/2 marathon.  I was definitely last of the 55 runners yesterday morning, by a good 20 minutes, but I made it.  I don’t regret that I was there yesterday, I only regret that I did not train appropriately. My time was 2:48.  At the half way mark my time was 1hr [...]

I am really even more scared and nervous about this whole ordeal than I ever thought I would be.  I came to the realization the other day at how small this race will be.  Last year only about 35 finishers.  Hello!!!  Why didn’t I sign up for a big race, with a couple of thousand [...]

It may have been a whole month (probably is) since I have lost any more weight. My home scale has stayed at pretty much the same number, but I weighed myself at the gym and it was considerably higher. I know that I was heavier than usual because I had just put down a bunch [...]

Well, the end of this next week…Saturday, July 25th…I will get to feel foolish and probably be the fattest runner out there.  But I will be there.  I have not run all week while on vacation….I have gained another few pounds that I can pound on the pavement next weekend. 
 
Anyway, vacation was great and I [...]